Study On Plant Location Selection And Inventory Setup In China By Automotive Company

The article describes the research process of solving the difficulties in finding plantlocation solution and outsourcing component inventory setup by F company. The researchcombine the mathematics models with theory, the purpose is to solve several actualproblems in new plant location selection and provide solution evidence for locationselection and inventory setup.The article introduces the background of F company and development plan in China,plan to choice one location among5potential location as plant building location with costand benefit optimization. Secondly, following the evaluate method of qualitative and rationcombination,"outstanding point" mathematics model is setup, the final qualitative andration causes items and weight are analyzed and determined by C&E matrix. Based onexpert evaluation method, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is used to analyze theeach weight of qualitative causes in detail, based on total cost within a certain time analyzemethod is used to determine the each weight of ration causes. Final location is selectedafter calculation by "outstanding point" mathematics model setup in chapter two in the end.Using ABC classification method and the analytic hierarchy process to detail label each8kind of outsourcing components, identifying the purchasing characteristics of eachoutsourcing components by the classification. Then planning the inventory setup strategyand purchasing strategy according to the classification result, customer order forecast andactual situation of final location selection.The research result shows, by building the "outstanding point" mathematics model,using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method based on expert evaluation method andusing total cost within a certain time analyze method, plant location selection decisioncould be made for automotive companies under global sourcing surrounds. And outsourcing component inventory setup strategy could be planned after using ABCclassification method and the analytic hierarchy process to identify the each kind ofcomponents' purchasing characteristics. The research shown in the article solves the actualdifficulty problems, provides theory evidence and valuable actual experience.